Catch



J. S. ISIDOR.

CATCH.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29. 1920.

Patented Mar 15, 1921.

J'JMJNVECJTOW W ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH S. ISIDOR, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEUMANN HARDWARE 00., CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CATCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 15, 1921.

Application filed January 29, 1920. Serial No. 354,989.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. IsmoR, a citizen of the United States, residin at Newark, in the county of Essex and tate of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Catches; and I to locking devices adapted for use with the pockets and flaps of kit-boxes, brief-cases, and also with suit-cases and bags of the various kinds; and, they present invention relates, more particularly, to a novel catchconstruction for the pockets and flaps of bags and kit, or lunch-boxes, as well as suitcases of the various kinds, the main members of the catch being usually stamped out of sheet-metal, as brass, or the like.

It has been found in practice, that with the usual construction and arrangement of the various devices and parts of catches such as hereinafter described, comprising an upper and alower main body-member, the lower main body-member being provided with a sheet-metal box to which is pivotally secured the usual lifting or raising member or lever for bringing the yoke-portion of the usual holding or retaining loop' which is also pivotally connected with said lifting or raising member or lever, that on account of the sheet-metal structure of the said box, and the necessary pivotal disposition of the lifting'orraising lever and of its holding orretaining loop, and of the disposition of the outerface of the box,

as at present made, when the lifting or raising member or lever is raised'by the operator, unless the latter is most careful, the said lever will be forced back too far, whereby the pivotally connected members, being made of sheetmetal, are almost immediately jammed and forced out of their operative engagement, so as to either break the catch at the point of pivotal connection between the said lifting or raising lever and the box,

or by jamming the parts,rendering the catch completely inoperative.

With the above in view, the present invention has for its principal object to provide a sheet-metal catch of the general ar rangement and construction of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth, in which the outer face of the box to which the lifting or raising member or lever is pivotally attached, is inclined in the manner shown in the accompanying drawings, and as hereinafter described, and whereby the lifting or raising member or lever can be fully operated without producing or causing any distorted or broken relation of the pivotally connected parts of the catch.

Other objects of the present invention not at this time more particularly enumerated will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the present invention.

With the various objects of the invention in view, the said invention consists, primarily, in the novel catch hereinafter more fully set forth in the following specification and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claims which are appended to the said specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figures 1 and 2 are a front and side-edge view respectively, of a catch made according to and embodying the principles of the pres ent invention, the various members of the catch being represented in their locked engagement.

Fig. 3 is a sideedge View of the catch, showing the several parts of the catch in their disengaged or unlocked relation; and Fig. 4: is a transverse vertical sectional representation of the catch, said section being taken on line l& in said Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the said above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the several figures of the drawings, the catch comprises an upper main body-portion 1 which is provided with the usual loop-engaging and retaining lug or holder 2, said body-portion being also provided with any usual arrangement of nail or rivet-receiving holes or perforations,

2'5 in said open portion 13 of a pair of perfoas 3. The said catch also comprises a lower main body-portion 4 provided with any usual arrangement of nail or rivet-receiving holes or perforations, as 5.

Suitably secured in the proper locationupon the outer face of said lower main body portion 4, by means of fastening lugs or tongues 6,or other suitable fastening means, 7 is a suitably formed box of sheet-metal, said box comprising oppositely disposed sides 7, an inclined or angularly disposed front or face-member 8, and a closing top or endportion 9, provided with an opening, as 10, for the reception of a lug-shaped portion 11, extending from the upper main body-por- 'tion 1, when the parts of the catch are brought into their locked relation, substanposed over the above-mentioned retaining tially as illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The lower part of the box is left open, as at 12, and the said inclined or angularly disposed front or face-member 8, terminates, as shown, along its lower edge, sufficiently above the lower marginal edges of-the sides 7 so as to provide an open front portion 13 and for the proper arrangement rated ears 14 which extend in forward directions from the said sides 7. Extending through the said ears 14 and laterally across the said open portion 13 is a pintle 15 for pivotally mounting thereon, by means of an arrangement of pintle-receiving lugs or ears I,

17, a raising or lifting member or lever 16. This member or lever 16 is usually suitably formed, as 18, so as to provide a fingerpiece for its proper manipulation, and between its lugs or cars 17, the said member or lever is provided with the usual spring-engaging element 19 adapted to extend rearwardly .16 are a pair of wings, as 22, preferably of the configuration shown, and pivotally connected with the respective wings 22 are the inwardly extending pivot members or endportions 24, seeFig. 1, of the usual hold ing or retaining loop 23, formed with the usual yoke-portion 25 which can be dis lug or'holder 2, by the proper manipulation of the said raising or lifting member or lever, as will be clearly understood from an inspection of the several figures of the draw-' ings.

It has been found in practice, in order to obtain the proper clamping action of the yoke-shaped portion 25 with the engaging part 26 of the lug or holder 2, when the the raised member or lifting lever 16 is box. I

parts are in their locked relation that the holding or retaining loop 23 must assume the position indicated in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings, and to accomplish this result, the means of pivotal connection of the lifting or raising means or lever 16 with the box of the lower main body-portion 4 must be located near the face. of said body-portion, otherwise a loose fit between the yokeshaped portion 25 and the retaining lug or holder 2 will be produced, thus rendering the catch practically useless.

Now, it has furtherbeen found in practice, that in the form of catches of the general construction, when made of sheet-metal, as brass, and when theface-member 8 of the box is made SO as to be parallel with the face of the body-member 4, that such arrangement of the parts prevents the lifting lever 16, when raised, to be brought into its properly rotated position, and that the operator in. the manipulation of the lever usually forces the same with too great pressure against the face of the box, thereby either straining, distorting, or breaking the parts and thus rendering the catch inoperative.

With the inwardly inclined or angular disposition of the face-portion'8 of the box,

easily brought in contact with the entire face-portion S'of the box, in the manner clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, which face-portion 8 of the box acts as a stop against further movement of the lifting or raising member or lever, and prevents any straining, distortion, or breaking of the thin sheet-metal members, as will be clearly understood.

I claim f 1. In combination, with a body-plate of a catch, a chambered box mounted upon said body-plate, said box having a faceportion in downwardly inclined relation to- Ward the face of said body-plate, and an actuating lever pivotally connected with said box, said lever when raised being adapted to be brought into arrested engagement with the inclined face-portion of said 2. In combination, with a body-plate of a catch, stop means extending forwardly from said plate and having a face-portion in downwardly inclined relation toward the face of said body-plate, and an actuating lever 'pivotally connected with said stopmeans, said lever when raised being adapt-v ed to be brought into arrested" engagement with the inclined face-portion of said stopmeans.

3. In combination, with'a body-plate of a catch, stop-means extending forwardly 1 from said plate and having a face-portion in downwardly inclined'relation toward the face of said body-plate, an actuating lever 130 pivotally connected with said stop-means, set forth above I have hereunto set my hand said lever when raised being adapted to be this 28th day of January, 1920. brought into arrested engagement with the inclined face-portion of said stop-means, JOSEPH ISIDOR' 5 and a yoke-shaped retaining 100p pivotally Witnesses:

connected with said lever, FREDK G. C. FRAENTZEL,

In testimony that I claim the invention BARBARA W. SU'I'I'ERLIN. 

